PACT is a BCBA led service providing bespoke behavioural interventions for older adults and their carers, BCBA supervision and CEUs in behavioural gerontology
Recently I spoke to the family of a client with dementia who we are supporting and discussed the fact that they have very recently been put onto antipsychotic medication. The family had no idea that antipsychotics come with an increased risk of death, strokes, drowsiness and fall
We have some thrilling news to share- Emma, co-director at PACT, has completed her PhD and passed her viva and is now Dr Emma Williams! Her PhD research is in an exciting area of behaviour analysis - counter terrorism! You can read more in our blog, linked in the comments.
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We strive to be constantly aware of ageism and stereotypes of older adults in our work. This video from the Centre for Ageing Better is a really helpful summary of ageism and the impact it has on older adults.
https://t.co/J5cVYjdKrX
We’ve had a fantastic time at the UKSBA Winter Speaker Series in London the last two days. We have left feeling incredibly excited for the next chapter of behaviour analysis in the UK- we’ll share more over the coming weeks!
It was lovely to catch up with behaviour analytic col
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We're going to be taking a bit of time off over the Christmas period to relax and refresh with a mince pie or two. We will return in 2023 with lots of exciting new developments.
In the meantime, we want to express our heartfelt thank you to all of you who have bought our course
We just managed to squeeze a cheeky little Christmas do in before we go on leave until January. Delicious food and celebrating a wonderful year of work 🎄 Time for a well deserved rest!
We've been posting a lot recently about what we offer other behaviour analysts, but we wanted to share details of our core service for older adults and their carers- our bespoke behavioural assessment and interventions.
When a client or loved one is showing behaviours often asso
As part of our mission to develop high quality behavioural services for older adults, we offer in person supervision for students wanting to collect supervised hours to sit the BCBA exam. We also offer remote supervision for those outside the North West England/North Wales.
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